A councillor who proposed a migrant champion for Cambridgeshire has been invited to take on the role herself. Cambridgeshire County Council voted in favour of appointing...
Cambridge Labour councillor and former leader of Cambridge City Council, Cllr Lewis Herbert has resigned from his long serving role on Cambridge City Council. For over...
Forty-seven acres of the East of England showground at Peterborough – including the arena and pavilion – could be used for the next five years for...
Peterborough City Council has won Government funding of £4m to buy a new electric bus depot. But city council leader Wayne Fitzgerald told a meeting of...
An independent councillor says she left a meeting of Peterborough City Council early last night after being “accosted” beforehand by council leader Wayne Fitzgerald. Cllr Julie...
Tories lost two major debates at Cambridgeshire County Council today which means there will be no referendum on the Cambridge congestion charge and approval for next...
Ill health has forced Lord Robert Kerslake to step down as chair of the improvement board at the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA). His resignation,...
A council trying to force a Cambridgeshire man to stop using part of a converted garage as a home office, asked Cambridge City Airport what they...
Jamie Dalzell is an engaging character. His Twitter profile confirms it. “Committed liberal and ale enthusiast, counting beans for a living,” he proclaims. And yesterday he...
A Cambridge resident has been fined after their waste was found dumped in Impington. South Cambridgeshire District Council investigated and tracked down the offender. A council...
‘Tenancy issues’ and the ‘future of the role of volunteer caretaker’ will be debated by a town council committee next week as they struggle to resolve...
South Cambridgeshire District Council has agreed to provide both its Lib Dem leader and her Tory opposition leader with £37,500 a year political assistants. Each will...
Exclusive – four Conservative councillors, two from Chatteris, one from Whittlesey and the fourth from Wisbech, decided the fate of March Fountain. March councillors on the...
Clues to the Liberal Democrat election campaign at East Cambridgeshire District Council in May can be gleaned from a series of amendments to tonight’s budget setting...
A parish council has explained why it needs to raise its parish precept for the coming year by a whopping 91.3 per cent. Elm Parish Council...
Fenland District Council’s ‘political’ decision to reduce Council Tax by 2 per cent comes with a health warning from its finance director and chief accountant. In...
Cambridgeshire police have an idiosyncratic phrase- ‘we can’t be everywhere but could be anywhere”. I thought of that on sitting down in my local coffee shop...
Council taxpayers in Huntingdon face an inflation busting 14 per cent rise in the town council’s precept for the coming year. Huntingdon Town Council says the...
Labour councillor Shaz Nawaz is to stand down as leader of the Labour group on Peterborough City Council and will resign as a city councillor. Cllr...
A £2m expansion of South Fens Enterprise Park, Chatteris, has been pulled. Fenland District Council describes the expansion as being “temporarily paused” but it has been...
Nine houses in the March and Whittlesey area could be bought by Fenland District Council to house refugees. The council is being recommended by its assistant...
Conservative social clubs across Fenland each received £10,000 as part of a grant scheme set up under Covid – but it was £10,000 to a Conservative...
A town council said ‘thanks but no thanks’ to a suggestion put to the Arts Council – who gave them £29,000 for a one-day festival –...
A change in the direction of travel for Cambridgeshire County Council’s wholly owned, arms’ length trading company This Land Ltd has been criticised by one of...
Noelle Godfrey, director of the Connecting Cambridgeshire digital connectivity programme has retired after working for Cambridgeshire County Council for 33 years. Noelle has led many highly successful collaborative...
Entrepreneur Peter Dawe has won permission to turn a small office block in into a five-bedroom hotel in Broad Street, Ely. The one-time independent candidate to...
East Cambridgeshire District Council says it will take £2.5m out of its “surplus savings reserve” to ensure it can, for the 10th year running, freeze its...
Cambridgeshire County Council is looking at whether it can ditch a French company that supplies its electricity in favour, at least partially, of ‘home-produced’ power. The...
Civil parking enforcement across Fenland could be delayed until the end of 2025, the district council has admitted. Although the council was awarded £400,000 two years...
Police and crime commissioner Darryl Preston visited Wisbech to see how his donation had helped clear a ‘crime scene’. Fenland District Council used the £1,450 from...